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Having lived in Santa Fe for the past 40 years, 30 as a gallery owner, I have focused recent years on getting the legislature to create a Nutrition Council with real powers to challenge FDA approved products, the most dangerous of which is the artificial sweetener, aspartame.
Aspartame is found in 7000 food products, including Equal, sugarless gums, all of the Diet Sodas, and numerous children’s medications. So what is the problem? If it is FDA approved, it must be OK, right?
Aspartame is metabolized as methanol, formaldehyde, aspartic acid, and phenylalanine, and these ingredients have increased ghastly neurodegenerative illnesses since approval was forced in 1981 by Donald Rumsfeld as CEO of G.D. Searle, the patent holder, in one of the darkest and dirtiest chapters of the history of failures at the FDA. He forced the appointment of a crony, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, as FDA Commissioner, in exchange for agreeing to approve aspartame, despite 16 years of the FDA saying no, based on the obvious and rudimentary toxic biochemistry of its metabolized components. [Google “Rumsfeld’s Bioweapon Legacy” to read more, as well as Googleable articles by H.J. Roberts (Internist), Russell Blaylock (Neurosurgeon) and Betty Martini, Founder of Mission Possible International. My best article is Resolving the Worsening Crisis at the FDA]
State Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino introduced bills to ban aspartame in New Mexico but they were shot down by corporate lobbying, to the tune of several million dollars just to eviscerate some true consumer protection initiatives. New Mexico legislators drinking their diet sodas capitulated when corporate theories of federal pre-emption were advanced by lobbyists, along with pointed reminders about how much they and Coca Cola or Pepsi contributed to their campaigns.
Our efforts have shifted now to Hawaii, where activists coached by me have succeeded in getting bills to ban aspartame introduced in Hawaii’s legislature, House Bill 2680 and Senate Bill 2506. The sponsors are stronger in Hawaii: two Senate Committee Chairs, Kalani English and Suzanne Chun- Oakland, and the Speaker of the House, by request of Rep. Mele Carroll.
The first salvos for true consumer protection in Hawaii have recently been fired on KHON-2, a conservative station and Fox Affiliate in which the predictable “dealarmist” Medical school professor absurdly said “a little bit won’t hurt you.” However, a whole lot of little bits of poison are cumulative and end up killing you, whether through cancer, heart disease, Multiple Sclerosis, etc.
The New Mexico bills were eviscerated by lobbyists representing Ajinomoto of Japan, the world’s largest manufacturer of both aspartame and MSG, as well as their duped American corporate henchmen/partners-in-poisoning who use massive amounts of Aspartame, like Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Altria/Kraft Corporate Services. Even more will show up in Honolulu, probably to include Wrigley’s Gum, all of whose products contain aspartame, even more dangerous since gum releases poisons absorbed under the tongue, which go directly to the brain.
Readers should watch the free online posting of SWEET MISERY, a documentary by a victim of aspartame poisoning at Sound and Fury Productions.tv.
Let me hear from you if you have questions or want to contact your friends, family, or colleagues in Hawaii to get this done.
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